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- vp was john adams
- 1-Washington
- married to Martha Custis
- 1-Washington
- congress chartered bank of us
- 1-Washington
- signed the Proclamation of Neutrality regarding the French Declaration of War against several Eurpoean countries
- 1-Washington
- first US Census
- 1-Washington
- Kentucky admitted to the Union
- 1-Washington
- scarred from small pox
- 1-Washington
- vp-Thomas Jefferson
- 2-Adams
- married Abigail Smith
- 2-Adams
- Harvard and was teacher, lawyer, writer
- 2-Adams
- Navy Department, Marine Corps established
- 2-Adams
- US Public Health Service established
- 2-Adams
- Library of Congress Established
- 2-Adams
- first session of Congress held at Washington DC
- 2-Adams
- was one who negotiated Treaty of Paris, ending AMerican Revolution
- 2-Adams
- successfully defended British soldiers accused of murder in Boston Massacre
- 2-Adams
- 11th Ammendment ratified
- 2-Adams
- believed avoiding war was the most important achievement of his presidency
- 2-Adams
- VP-Aaron Burr and George Clinton
- 3-Jefferson
- Married to Martha Skelton
- 3-Jefferson
- 5 daughters 1 son
- 3-Jefferson
- lawyer, writer, Governor of Virginia
- 3-Jefferson
-
College Education-William and Mary
Born in Charlottesville Virginia - 3-Jefferson
- Lewis and Clark Expedition
- 3-Jefferson
- First constitutional transfer of power between political groups
- 3-Jefferson
- War with Tripoli
- 3-Jefferson
- 12 amendment ratified
- 3-Jefferson
- Ohio admitted to Union
- 3-Jefferson
- Governor of Virginia (1779-1781)
- 3-Jefferson
- introduced hand shaking instead of bowing
- 3-Jefferson
- multilingual-one of the best educated
- 3-Jefferson
- dedicated to the common man
- 3-Jefferson
- tied his vp in election, house of Representatives voted 36 times before the tie was broken
- 3-Jefferson
- first president elected by house of Representatives
- 3-Jefferson
- organized library into 3 sections-memory, reason, imagination-this later formed the core of the Library of Congress
- 3-Jefferson
- urged Congress to sweep away about all the taxes imposed
- 3-Jefferson
- Believed women belonged in nursery
- 3-Jefferson
- wrote is own epitaph, making no mention of his presidency
- 3-Jefferson
- portrait on $2 bill and nickel
- 3-Jefferson
- vp-George Clinton, ELbridge Gerry
- 4-Madison
- Married Dorothea DOlley Dandridge Payne Todd
- 4-Madison
- No Children but wife was widowed with two sons-one died in infancy
- 4-Madison
- lawyer-College Education-Princeton
- 4-Madison
- President during War of 1812
- 4-Madison
- Purchased Thomas Jefferson's Library for Library of Congress
- 4-Madison
- Star Spangled Banner was written
- 4-Madison
- Louisiana admitted to Union
- 4-Madison
- Indiana admitted to Union
- 4-Madison
- shortest president
- 4-Madison
- Father of the Constitution
- 4-Madison
- helped formulate the Virginia Constitution
- 4-Madison
- first president with prior service as Congressman
- 4-Madison
- 1 president to regularly wear trousers instead of knee breeches
- 4-Madison
- last surviving signer of the Constitution
- 4-Madison
- only president whose administrationlost 2 vp's through death
- 4-Madison
- portrait on $5,000 bill
- 4-Madison
- vp-Danial D. Tompkins
- 5-Monroe
- Married Elizabeth Kortright
- 5-Monroe
- two daughters, one son
- 5-Monroe
- Lawyer,writer,senator,Governor of Virginia, College Education-WIlliam and Mary
- 5-Monroe
- legistlation established flag of US
- 5-Monroe
- Monroe Doctrine
- 5-Monroe
- Erie Canal construction begun
- 5-Monroe
- Rush-Bagot Agreement signed, calling for disarmament of the Great Lakes
- 5-Monroe
- Flordia purchased from Spain
- 5-Monroe
- Missouri Compromise
- 5-Monroe
- Mississippi Admitted
- 5-Monroe
- Illinois admitted
- 5-MOnroe
- Alabama admitted
- 5-Monroe
- Maine admitted
- 5-Monroe
- Missouri admitted
- 5-Monroe
- received every electoral college vote but one
- 5-Monroe
- first president inaugurated outdoors
- 5-Monroe
- first president to be senator
- 5-MOnroe
- first president to have daughter marry in white house
- 5-MOnroe
- served as Minister to France
- 5-Monroe
- born south of Mason-Dixon LIne
- 5-MOnroe
- remembered as president who formulated a policy on non-interference of European countries in Western hemisphere contries
- 5-Monroe
- vp-John Caldwell Calhoun
- 6-Adams
- Married Louisa Johnson
- 6-Adams
- three sons, one daughter
- 6-Adams
- Lawyer-College Education-Harvard
- 6-Adams
- Erie Canal opened for traffic
- 6-Adams
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad construction began
- 6-Adams
- Bunker HIll Monument cornerstone laid
- 6-Adams
- first president to be photographed
- 6-Adams
- first president to wear long trousers to inauguration
- 6-Adams
- ran for Congress after being defeated for a second term as president
- 6-Adams
- in the 1841 Armistad rebellion
- 6-Adams
- first congressman to asser government's right to free slaves in times of war
- 6-Adams
- nicknamed "Old Man ELoquent" because of his persuasive speeches
- 6-Adams
- was anti-slavery and anti-war
- 6-Adams
- was a Phi Beta Kappa
- 6-Adams
- published poet
- 6-Adams
- wrpte rebutting Thomas Paine who he thought was too liberal
- 6-Adams
- witnessed Battle of Bunker HIll, the signing of the Treaty of Paris and the Treaty of Ghent
- 6-Adams
- wore same hat for 10 yrs; not interested in clothes or fashion
- 6-Adams
- vp-John Calhous and Martin Van Buren
- 7-Jackson
- Married Rachel Robards
- 7-Jackson
- judge, planter, governor of Tennessee, no college
- 7-Jackson
- first railroad locomotive went into service
- 7-Jackson
- Black Hawk War and Second Seminole War
- 7-Jackson
- McCormick's reaper patented,1834
- 7-Jackson
- Texas dec;ared independence-Battle of the Alamo
- 7-Jackson
- Wisconsin territory organized
- 7-Jackson
- Arkansas admitted
- 7-Jackson
- Michigan admitted
- 7-Jackson
- Indian Removal Act forced migration of AMerican Indians
- 7-Jackson
- first president born in log cabin
- 7-Jackson
- first president from poor family
- 7-Jackson
- first president to marry a divorced woman
- 7-Jackson
- first to be nominated by a national nominating convention instead of congressional caucuses
- 7-Jackson
- first to receive a plurality of popular votes without winning the election
- 7-Jackson
- first to ride on a railroad train as US PResident
- 7-Jackson
- delivered his inaugural address on the platform under the eastern portico of the Capitol, starting a trend that has continued to the present
- 7-Jackson
- survived unhurt the 1st assassination attempt against a president
- 7-Jackson
- successful attempt to destroy the Second Bank of the United states
- 7-Jackson
- stopped South Carolina from succeeding from the union bc of high tariff laws
- 7-Jackson
- took part in an estimated 100 brawls and duels
- 7-Jackson
- regarded himself as "aman of the people"
- 7-Jackson
- one of the founders of Democratic Party (his logan "let the people rule")
- 7-Jackson
- war hero nickname "Old HIckory"
- 7-Jackson
- portrait on $20 bill
- 7-Jackson
- vp-Richard M. Johnson
- 8-Van BUren
- Married Hannah Hoes
- 8-Van Buren
- four sons
- 8-Van Buren
- no college education, lawyer, senator, governor
- 8-Van Buren
- treasury system created
- 8-Van Buren
- 1 great depression (panic of 1837)
- 8-Van Buren
- rubber was patented
- 8-Van Buren
- various Indian wars and agreements
- 8-Van Buren
- telegraph message sent
- 8-Van Buren
- Governor of New York (1829)
- 8-Van Buren
- first president born a citizen of the Us after the Constitution
- 8-Van Buren
- Old Kinderhook
- 8-Van Buren
- believed government role should be small even in times of need
- 8-Van Buren
- helped form first Political Machine, an orginazation that trades favors for votes
- 8-Van Buren
- made 3 unsuccessful attempts to be reelected
- 8-Van Buren
- Married Anna Symmes
- 9-Harrison
- six sons, four daughters
- 9-Harrison
- soldier, governor of Indiana, College Education-Hampden-Sydney College
- 9-Harrison
- steam fire engine publicy tested in New York City
- 9-Harrison
- Indiana Territory governor
- 9-Harrison
- married Lettitia Christian (died) later married Julia Gardiner
- 10-Tyler
- lawyer, governor of Virginia, William and Mary
- 10-Tyler
- sewing machine patented
- 10-Tyler
- Webster Ashburtpn treat settled Maine Boundary
- 10-Tyler
- Charles Goodyear patented vulcanized rubber
- 10-Tyler
- both MT ST Helens and Mt Rainier erupted
- 10-Tyler
- first legislation passed in spite of presidential veto
- 10-Tyler
- trade relations set up with China
- 10-Tyler
- annexation of Texas
- 10-Tyler
- Flordia admitted
- 10-Tyler
- member of Confederate Congress
- 10-Tyler
- 1 to marry while in office
- 10-Tyler
- "President without Party"
- 10-Tyler
- honored his horse "The Genral" with a grave and inscription
- 10-Tyler
- VP-George M. Dallas
- 11-Polk
- Married Sarah Chilress
- 11-Polk
- Lawyer, governor of Tennessee, University of North Carolina
- 11-Polk
- Us Naval Academy opened
- 11-Polk
- Calafornia gold rush
- 11-Polk
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidlago
- 11-Polk
- women's right conventionin Seneca Falls, New YOrk
- 11-Polk
- 146 Mormons arrived in Great Salt Lake Valley
- 11-Polk
- cornerstone laid for Washington Monument, 1848
- 11-Polk
- election day for national elections fixed as first tuesday after the first monday in november of every even numbered year
- 11-Polk
- Texas admitted
- 11-Polk
- Iowa admitted
- 11-Polk
- Wisconsin admitted
- 11-POlk
- Speaker of the House
- 11-POlk
- first "dark horse" canidate for president
- 11-Polk
- 1 president not to seek reelection
- 11-POlk
- 1 president whose mother lived longer than him
- 11-Polk
- devout Presbyterian
- 11-Polk
- dancing and liquor not permitted at Inaugural Ball untill he left
- 11-Polk
- worked long hours
- 11-Polk
- baptized 1 week before death
- 11-Polk
- VP-MIllard Fillmore
- 12-Taylor
- Married Margaret Smith
- 12-Taylor
- safety pin patented
- 12-Taylor
- treaty with Hawaiian Islands
- 12-Taylor
- Compromise of 1850
- 12-Taylor
- 2 president to die in office
- 12-Taylor
- military hero during Black Hawk War and Mexican War
- 12-Taylor
- "Old Rough and Ready"
- 12-Taylor
- 1 election to be held at the same time in all states
- 12-Taylor
- 1 president who had not served in the US Congress or the Continental COngress
- 12-Taylor
- 2 president inaugurated on March 5
- 12-Taylor
- never voted until his own election
- 12-Taylor
- related to Madison and Confederate General RObert E. Lee
- 12-Taylor
- horse Whitey, grazed on White HOuse Lawn
- 12-Taylor
- served 1 year, 127 days
- 12-Taylor
- Married Abigail POwers
- 13-Fillmore
- lawyer, teacher, no college education
- 13-Fillmore
- Chancellor of University of Buffalo
- 13-Fillmore
- Fugitive Slave Law enacted
- 13-Fillmore
- Cornerstone laid for addition toUS capitol
- 13-Fillmore
- Capital partially destroyed by fire
- 13-Fillmore
- "uncle Toms Cabin" written
- 13-FIllmore
- Commodore Matthew C. Perru sen to open trade with Japan
- 13-Fillmore
- California admitted
- 13-Fillmore
- married his teacher
- 13-Fillmore
- declined an honorary degree from Oxford
- 13-Fillmore
- popilarity bottomed bc of his pro-slavery stance
- 13-Fillmore
- second president to remarry after death of first wife
- 13-Fillmore
- started White HOuse Library
- 13-Fillmore
- VP-William R. King
- 14-Pierce
- Married Jane Appleton
- 14-Pierce
- Bowdoin College
- 14-Pierce
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- 14-Pierce
- Gadson Purchase Treaty
- 14-Pierce
- attempt to seize Cuba from Spain unsuccessfully
- 14-Pierce
- puchased land from Mexico
- 14-Pierce
- first perforated postage stamps used
- 14-Pierce
- New Hampshire senator at age 32
- 14-Pierce
- "Dark Horse" Canidate
- 14-Pierce
- first president who did not read his inaugural speech but gave it as an oration
- 14-Pierce
- 1 lady always dressed in Black
- 14-Pierce
- appointed Jefferson Davis Secretary of War
- 14-Pierce
- supported immigrant rights
- 14-Pierce
- vp-John Breckinridge
- 15-Buchanan
- Dickenson COllege
- 15-Buchanan
- POny Express
- 15-Buchanan
- Dred Scott decision
- 15-Buchanan
- John Brown captured
- 15-Buchanan
- "Confederate States of AMerica" organized
- 15-Buchanan
- Minnesota admitted
- 15-Buchanan
- ORegon
- 15-Buchanan
- Kansas admitted
- 15-Buchanan
- expelled from college
- 15-Buchanan
- Secretary of State, MInister to England, Minister to Russia
- 15-Buchanan
- "slave to Union" campaign theme
- 15-Buchanan
- lavish inaugural ball
- 15-Buchanan
- VP-Hannibal Hamlin, Andrew Johnson
- 16-Lincoln
- Mary Todd
- 16-Lincoln
- Department of Agriculture created
- 16-Lincoln
- HOmestead Act
- 16-Lincoln
- West Virginia admitted
- 16-Lincoln
- Nevada admitted
- 16-Lincoln
- made Thanksgiving permanentt holiday
- 16-Lincoln
- first pres. born beyond the boundaries of the original 13 states
- 16-Lincoln
- 4 future presidents attended inauguration
- 16-Lincoln
- first assasinated
- 16-Lincoln
- Last words "should I like to see Jerusalem"
- 16-Lincoln
- portrait on $5 bill and penny
- 16-Lincoln
- Married Eliza McCartle
- 17-Johnson
- tailor, legislator, govornor of Tennessee
- 17-Johnson